MARKETS

PUB. DATE

January 2006

SOURCE

Multichannel News;1/2/2006, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p32

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article presents updates on finance in television broadcasting in the U.S. as of January 2, 2006. DirecTV Group Inc. is expected by Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Tom Eagan to buy back its shares from the pension fund of General Motors. A comparison between "Multimedia News" Multimedia Index and Standard & Poor's Index in the sector is presented. Pioneer Corp. has experienced a stock price increase from December 20 to 28, 2005. A table that lists the stock prices of several companies in the broadcasting is provided.

The article examines a financial dispute over broadcasting rights between the mass media industry firm Fox Broadcasting and satellite television company DirecTV, noting that a public relations campaign by DirecTV was ineffective as customers blame it for the absence of Fox television programs.

Deals with the financial woes faced by TV-6, an independent television station in Russia. Plans of Yevgeny Kiselyev, TV-6 director for the station; Stance taken by President Vladimir Putin on the status of TV-6; Key problem facing TV-6.

Cites a study by Forrester Research which found television stations in the United States gearing to spend up to $6 million each as investment to digital television (DTV) by year 2000. Plans for upgrading facilities to transmit high-definition or other digital programming; Forecasts for more...

Reports that the Georgia House of Representatives has threatened state public-television officials with a funding cut as retaliation for their decision to air a gay-themed documentary in July 1991. Annual budget received by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission; Legislators'...

Questions whether Australia's taxpayers should continue or discontinue the funding of the television arm of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). SBS Radio's competence in keeping ethnic groups in touch with the old-country culture; SBS-TV's pay-television fray with Seven Network chairman...

The article reports on the increase of Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 stock buybacks in the seven quarters ending June 2011. It states that the 109 billion U.S. dollars buybacks in the quarter of June were the biggest since the quarter of March 2008. It presents a table that shows seven suggested...

The article reports that television broadcasting networks including ESPN and DirecTV plan to introduce channels in 2010 that will offer viewers 3-D broadcasts. This projects are partially financed by Sony Corp., which is manufacturing television receivers with three-dimensional display capacity....